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Redo of Healer, also known in Japan as KaiYari (short for Kaifuku Jutsushi no Yarinaoshi: Sokushi Mahō to Sukiru Kopī no Chōetsu Hīru), is a Japanese light novel and manga series that began serialization in 2016. The story follows Keyaru, chosen to be a hero of the lowest class, Healer, only to be exploited and tortured for four years. Using the power of a demon stone, he rewinds time four years and seeks vengeance on his torturers. The series also received an anime adaptation by studio TNK that was banned or censored in several countries for its controversial content.
Why It Should Never Be Healed
- The main character, Keyaru/Keyarga, is incredibly unlikeable, unheroic, and unrelatable. Instead of just killing the people who tortured him, he chooses to RAPE them, which is far worse in every way and makes him both hypocritical and worse than the actual villains. Even when he's not doing these horrible things, his personality is very grating, considering how he acts like it's acceptable and is far too overpowered the whole time, never once facing consequences for his actions.
- Keyaru also kills lots of innocent people for little to no reason, which once again makes him more villainous than the actual villains.
- Flare Earlgrande Giorial is a more dreadful rip-off of Marty Malromarc from The Rising of a Shield Hero.
- Inconsistent art style and angles which makes reading it confusing at times. It often seems like they're trying to sort of "censor" the explicit imagery, but often looks bad because of it. For example, nipples, male or female, are always completely whited out or undrawn, which looks kind of bad.
- It pretty much outright glorifies rape, showing Keyaru as the hero despite all the horrible things he does. It's classified as "revenge rape" by many, which doesn't change the fact that it's still rape and still something no real man or hero, therein would ever do.
- It's grossly exploitative, it doesn't help the fact that Keyaru's first victim is a woman. Sure, she might've gotten him addicted to drugs and made him a sex slave to her soldiers, but she herself never raped him, which makes him seem even more villainous.
- On that note, not only does he threaten to rape her with hot metal before she desperately begs for the less painful but still just as vile version, but he then erases her memory and makes her his amnesiac sex slave. She becomes a good person after the memory wipe, but he still sees it as a way to give her further pain.
- Renard is another cruel brutish knight with a sadistic behavior until he gets his comeuppance into becoming a girl and is killed getting tortured by Keyaru's brainwashed men.
- Most of the female characters in the series are either sexually attracted to Keyaru, masochistic, or both, which is a way to make them unlikeable, unremarkable, and a rather sexist representation thereof. Sex wouldn't be mentioned so much if it wasn't so overly prominent in the series. This also makes the story feel incredibly dated considering how many manga and just media in general have strong female characters who aren't sex obsessed like these ones. Not to mention that Keyaru often touches them inappropriately WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT.
- Bullet and Blade are exceedingly poor representations of LGBT characters. Not only are they both rapists of course, but they both clearly have no idea how a homosexual relationship works. Blade says she can't pleasure Flare, which is just a bad line of dialogue that pretty much just says "I'm a woman too, I'll never be in a relationship.". There have even been some anime and manga that represent them well, though few and far between, unfortunately, which makes this especially inexcusable.
- Terrible worldbuilding. It's got the JRPG aesthetic of another light novel series, Rising of the Shield Hero, only this one makes no sense at all, since Keyaru is able to easily gain powerful abilities like poison and drug resistance through doing them constantly. Wouldn't he be more likely to die first if he does it so much? That's how an RPG works. It also has objects stolen directly from other RPG series like the Scroll of Identify from Diablo. This whole thing just feels really out of place, considering the series ISN'T an Isekai.
- Apparently, people in the world can increase their level cap by taking semen from a hero. That, once again, is a disgusting sentence in and of itself, and also only serves as an excuse to have Keyaru become a sex object early on. It also doesn't make any sense, since the world could not possibly be protected by just a handful of gifted people. It would be far more interesting if this part was taken out.
- It makes no sense why the other heroes were so villainous. Literally, there's no reason for them to be that way. They very suddenly change to the super generic "We're rich and powerful, so let's abuse everyone below us" kind of villains.
- The anime adaptation often has an amount of censorship, which gave the studio, TNK, and their lead artist, Junji Goto, a bad reputation.
- The series is a rip-off of the Rance RPG series from Alicesoft.
Healing Qualities
- The art style is pretty decent for the most part, even if angles sometimes make it confusing.
- Audiences generally agree that the rape aspect is the worst part of the series.
- At least Keyaru was not a generic "reincarnated" protagonist and has a reason for his actions and it tried to make him sympathetic at first, even if it in no way justifies or excuses them.
- Some likeable characters, such as Setsuna, Freya (the new identity of Flare), and Kureha, even if they're all still unnecessarily sex-obsessed.
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